论文标题
用功能作为边缘服务的网络计算
In-Network Computing With Function as a Service at the Edge
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论文摘要
从用户设备到网络边缘的处理功能，将计算从用户设备到节点是当今网络/服务体系结构的主要趋势。同时，无服务器计算在云计算技术中获得了巨大的吸引力，因此促进了函数式服务（FAAS）的采用。后者具有一些使其通常适合边缘应用程序的特征，除了其对状态应用程序的支持繁琐。这项工作旨在对支持状态FAA的可用选项提供广泛的看法，这些选项被蒸馏成四个参考执行模型，这些模型在国家居住的位置上有所不同。虽然需要进一步的调查来促进我们对通过状态FAA进行网络计算提供的机会的理解，但通过对这四种替代方案的定性分析以及它们在模拟器中的定量比较提供了初步见解。
Offloading computation from user devices to nodes with processing capabilities at the edge of the network is a major trend in today's network/service architectures. At the same time, serverless computing has gained a huge traction among the cloud computing technologies and has, thus, promoted the adoption of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS). The latter has some characteristics that make it generally suitable to edge applications, except for its cumbersome support of stateful applications. This work is set to provide a broad view on the options available for supporting stateful FaaS, which are distilled into four reference execution models that differ on where the state resides. While further investigation is needed to advance our understanding of the opportunities offered by in-network computing through stateful FaaS, initial insights are provided by means of a qualitative analysis of the four alternatives and their quantitative comparison in a simulator.
